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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8092S, 127.3981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Friday. The temblor was detected at 09:28:45 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700046cw. Ids that are associated to the event: us700046cw. Exact location of earthquake, 127.3981° East, 1.8092° North, depth 106.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.53 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/19 / 2019-06-28 00:28:45 / June 28, 2019 @ 12:28 am.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 68 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km W of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-28 00:28:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-28 00:46:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700046cw Id of event.
Event Code 700046cw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046cw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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